The Inside Story of Microsoft's 'Project Natal'

Lanxon writes "Wired has published a lengthy behind-the-scenes feature documenting the inception, development and technological struggles of Microsoft's Project Natal, now known as Kinect. The feature is the result of conversations the magazine had with a number of key developers and researchers behind the project, and unprecedented access to Microsoft Research in a number of countries, over the course of three years."

Re:Waste of R&D dollars, if you ask me

[mSparks43]

They should get Carol Vorderman to do the advert. "Now you can consolidate all your super sucky controllers into one, easy, Mega sucky interface"

Re:Waste of R&D dollars, if you ask me

[cjcela]

Make your son a favor, and give him something to play outside instead of a gadget.

Maybe you can get the Kinect thing for yourself, as well...

Embarrassing Kinect demo on German TV show

[mick232]

Yesterday I watched a TV show on German TV in which they used the Kinect system. It was broadcast on a major channel watched by millions. Two players had to play against each other in a quite unspectacular game. It was embarrassing, both due to the boring gameplay and the technical weaknesses of the system. During the first game, suddenly the split-screen switched to a single screen such that only one player could see his avatar. Nobody knew why and the TV show host quickly reacted and said "well, now you had a training run". After the second run one of the players complained that his moves were not recognized at all. He kept jumping all the time but the cameras obviously did not capture these jumps.

Re:You Should Be Criticizing The Shoddy Tech

[Thud457]

Dear multibillion dollar corporations: with today's abysmal economy, I'd sure like to get in on some of that lush gelt. Normally, I troll for the lulz, but I'll be more than happy to shill for the $$$$<--(that's four monies, there...)